The Hindu,Koraput,25.02.2010
It is for the first time in Orissa that about 16,000 adolescent girls were covered under a special programme to improve their anaemic condition by providing Iron Folic Acid (IFA) tablets every week along with de-worming tablets twice a year, Neelam Bhatnagar, nutrition specialist from UNICEF, said here on Wednesday. She was here for the launching of the programme along with Sujata Rao, consultant, adolescent health, UNICEF, being held in the residential school for the girls at Mondaguda near Koraput.
While the programme would be carried out in all the 136 schools of the department, selected teachers from all these schools have already been given orientation on the nature and frequency of administering these tablets, Sweta Kumar Das, District Welfare Officer, said. Adolescent girls often suffer from anaemia for poor diet, malaria and worm infection and the programme would give a coverage for them from two angles. While IFA tablets bring the girls back from the anaemic condition, the de-worming tablets would protect them from worm infections, said Ms. Bhatnagar.
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